Category: News
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EBulletin 154- Zero tolerance for zero-hour contracts!!
NSSN e-bulletin 154 – Zero tolerance for zero-hour contracts!! Zero-hour contracts have hit the headlines over the last week, with 24,000 (80%) of JD Wetherspoons staff and 20,000 (90%) of Sports Direct all on such contracts. Even Buckingham Palace and the Coalition Government use them! Zero-hour contracts offer no guarantee of hours or pay, and…
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Solidarity with striking Dublin Bus workers
Reprinted from the Irish Socialist Party website Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins and MEP Paul Murphy support the strike action being taken by SIPTU, NBRU and TSSA Dublin Bus workers. Respond to the imposition of cuts in pay premia and conditions by Dublin Bus management on the workers Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy said: “The…
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Unison rep writes to Salford Mayor, ‘Spend windfall defending services’
Following this week’s announcement of a £48m windfall from the Manchester Airport Group to be shared between the ten Greater Manchester Authorities, Steven North, Salford Unison Branch Secretary wrote the following letter to Salford City Mayor, Ian Stewart (Labour): Date: 2nd August 2013 Dear Ian Re: Manchester Airport Group Announcement of Windfall for Local Authorities…
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North West Unison reps demand action on pay
On 24th July, UNISON’s Northwest Local Government Service Group Executive met for the first time since the national acceptance of a 1% pay increase that our region rightly opposed and actively campaigned against. Historically, the majority of Northwest Branches have been loyal to our national leadership, but there was palpable anger in the room, which…
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Bulletin 153 An Anti-Austerity Summer! (And a Hot Autumn?)
NSSN EBULLETIN 153 An Anti-Austerity Summer! (And a Hot Autumn?) We might not all be wearing ‘magic shorts’ but we are getting straight to it this week: Elected members from trades councils on TUCJCC have come on board with the NSSN to lobby TUC Congress. The Unemployed Workers Centres Combine are also supporting it. All…
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NSSN EBULLETIN 152 We’d like to celebrate the birth of.. 😉
NSSN EBULLETIN 152 We’d like to celebrate the birth of.. 😉 some more industrial action.. Following a spring of industrial action PCS will be spending the summer months consulting all of its branches on how to take its national campaign forward. In an escalation of the PCS national campaign in support of pay, pensions, jobs,…
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Ronnie Draper & Ian Lawrence now speaking at NSSN lobby of TUC
The NSSN are delighted to announce further speakers at the lobby of the TUC Congress on 8th September. Ronnie Draper is the General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU). The BFAWU is one of the seven unions that officially support the NSSN. Ian Lawrence is the recently elected General Secretary of…
